December 13, 2006 1:58 PM
RIP: Peter Boyle
I've never laughed as hard at anything on a movie screen as I did at Peter Boyle doing a soft shoe routine with Gene Wilder to "Putting on the Ritz" in Young Frankenstein. Nearly fell out of my chair. Still can bearly watch it without howlling.
An "action figure" of Boyle as the monster, a Christmas gift from my oldest son, stands proudly on a bookcase shelf in my office at home and the DVD is within handy reach.
Mr. Boyle died Monday night of multiple myeloma and heart disease. He was 71. He enjoyed a distinguished film career but won widest fame for playing Frank Barrone for 10 years on Everybody Loves Raymond.
The Washington Post has this career retrospective.
The Biography Channel will air a tribute/retrospective to Mr. Boyle at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Mr. Boyle was chilling as a hippie-hating redneck in Joe, terrific and undestated as Robert Redford's campaign manager in The Candidate, brilliant as Joe McCarthy in Tail Gunner Joe and never less than a craftsman whenever he appeared on screen. But I'm going home tonight and slipping the Young Frankenstein DVD into the player and enjoy again what, to my eyes, is the most laugh-out-loud scene in movie history.
December 13, 2006
4:28 PM
Death KING writes:
Better him than me!
December 14, 2006
1:28 PM
Anonymous writes:
Peter was a stooge. Raymond is a stooge.
December 14, 2006
2:53 PM
BLT writes:
I thought he was so funny in Yong Frankenstein. I so much enjoy Everybody loves Raymond, even in reruns. Thank you Peter for making me laugh so much. Rest in Peace, the world isnt the same without you.
December 15, 2006
12:45 PM
Anonymous writes:
A well known Peter Boyle Quote from "Joe":
“Forty two percent of liberals are queer.”
But like JW, he didn't post a link or was able to come up with how he bases this comment...
December 18, 2006
10:26 AM
Anonymous writes:
Holy Crap!